A Study of How University Students Describe Their Media Informational Reasoning Process and How They Perceive it Relates to Their Social Identities
Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: A large body of research has been conducted about how the social identities of individuals influence and bias their reasoning about specific pieces of information such as climate change or political policy.The increasing amount of media misinformation that individuals encounter on the Internet in the Digital Age, and the negative effect that result from media misinformation have increased the importance of this research.The current focus on misinformation has led to an increase in media literacy programs in K-12 education and in educational research about how young people reason with information on the Internet.Much of the research that has been conducted on how individuals reason with information has used largescale quantitative surveys.Few these studies have asked participants to describe their reasoning process themselves.In addition, much of the research that has been conducted on how individuals interact with and make sense of information has focused primarily on political identity and has not examined how other identities, such as those related to ethnicity, culture, and gender influence the reasoning process.In addition, the two major studies in the field of I would like to thank the members of my dissertation committee for the advice, work, and patience they provided which helped me complete this dissertation.I am grateful to Professor Walter C. Parker for his support and open-door policy that enabled me to think through numerous issues related to my work and I appreciate it greatly.I am thankful that he challenged me every step of the way.I thank Professor Geneva Gay for her support and for how she always challenged and expanded my thinking.I would like to thank Professor Jevin West for serving as the Graduate School Representative on my committee and for his support and encouragement.I lack the capacity to express adequately my feelings of gratitude for the support, guidance, and friendship that Professor James A. Banks, the chair of my dissertation committee gave me during the last four years; I will simply say thank you.You have set a high bar for guidance and support of students that I will try to mirror in my work with students in the future. My mother, Deborah Keener Brown
Author: Robert W. Keener
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3178846127